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Hello, it's good to be back today with skullduggery in Russia and in the Palace of Westminster.

With me to introduce their good read are two journalists, Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine and Toby Young,

co-author most recently of what every parent needs to know

how to help your child get the most out of primary school.

Toby's also co-founded for schools.

And Toby, why don't you start us off?

Your choice of a good read is.

Kalimski Heights by Lionel Davidson.

I read this when I was a teenager on the recommendation of my mum.

It's, I think you called it a literary thriller.

And it's about an agent who is dispatched behind enemy lines into Siberia to try and retrieve a scientific secret

at the request of the head of this secret genetics kind of biological facility in the heart of Siberia.

And it's an extremely exciting book. It's not only kind of very

well paced with lots of suspense and a fantastic extended chase sequence, but it's also scientifically,

extremely well-informed. So Davidson himself, I think, had a lifelong interest in science. Many of his

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